Best War Games on Steam
Games about armed conflict, battles, strategy, soldiers, fronts, or consequences.
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1Hearts of Iron IV - Victory is at your fingertips! Your ability to lead your nation is your supreme weapon, the strategy game Hearts of Iron IV lets you take command of any nation in World War II; the most engaging conflict in world history.
Jun 6, 2016
In this game, you can…
- stage a surprise airborne invasion that takes an enemy capital before your own sea landing even leaves port.
- start as tiny Bolivia and snowball from beating one neighbor into grinding down half a continent, then gearing up to fight Brazil.
- oust Stalin in a civil war, reunite China as a warlord, or put another Napoleon on France's throne in the same game.
- manually switch combat plans mid-battle multiple times to change how a fight plays out instead of just watching it resolve.
- drive a tank army straight through a country that has no anti-tank and rip the front so wide it looks like someone took a bite out of the map.
- race the clock in a WW1 mod: stabilize a collapsing front, rush 1918 fighters to wipe the enemy air force, then snake an armored car into Paris seconds before the USA joins.
- turn a small nation into an industrial powerhouse through years of buildup, then flip the switch into rapid conquest the moment you're ready.
2Arma 3 - Experience true combat gameplay in a massive military sandbox. Deploy with a wide variety of single- and multiplayer content, a massive arsenal of modern weapons and vehicles, and limitless opportunities for content creation. Authentic, diverse, open - Arma 3 sends you to war.
Sep 12, 2013
In this game, you can…
- build custom wars and scenarios in an editor, from realistic ops to zombies, aliens, sci‑fi, and completely player-made terrains.
- lie motionless in a ghillie suit while an entire platoon patrols right past you.
- treat battlefield injuries mid-fight, from chest wounds to splints and stitches, while your squad keeps taking fire.
- spend 30 minutes watching patrol routes, sprint 200 meters into the open, plant charges on a comms tower, then escape before the patrol net closes.
- play missions where 7 people crawl for cover, patch each other up, and keep moving even after a sniper drops someone instantly.
3Totally Accurate Battle Simulator - Be the leader of wobblers from ancient lands, spooky places, and fantasy worlds. Watch them fight in simulations made with the wobbliest physics system ever created, make your own wobblers in the unit creator and send your army off to fight your friends in multiplayer.
Apr 1, 2021
In this game, you can…
- build and play with around 200 custom units you design yourself.
- set an "unkillable" custom hero against 200 peasants and still lose because they fall into the water.
- directly control a unit mid-battle and steer one wobbling fighter through the chaos up close.
- make a custom unit like Santa who dual-wields fish, throws magic spears, and summons boulders onto enemies.
- hit start and watch one dragon wipe out an entire army in about four seconds.
- hunt for secret units hidden around maps like a scavenger hunt, then add them to your battles.
- treat the campaign like a coin-budget puzzle where you keep swapping between swarms and a few expensive heroes until something works.
- spawn random armies, then add one extra unit after each fight to see how a single change flips the outcome.
4Crusader Kings III - Love, fight, scheme, and claim greatness. Determine your noble house’s legacy in the sprawling grand strategy of Crusader Kings III. Death is only the beginning as you guide your dynasty’s bloodline in the rich and larger-than-life simulation of the Middle Ages.
Sep 1, 2020
In this game, you can…
- make the pope your vassal, imprison him over a feast insult, seize Rome, force-convert him, and banish him.
- create a custom religion with rules like forced nudity or ritual cannibalism, then use conversion to control and humiliate rivals.
- start as a two-year-old empress, face near-total revolt, then grow into a famous conqueror and reformer.
- play a dynasty where you die, then keep ruling as your heir.
- lose your wife to concubinage, rescue her decades later, then adopt a feral "wolf-boy" and raise him into a kingdom-building heir.
- turn a rumor into a chain of spying, blackmail, secret murders, and a land-claim war that drags the whole realm into marching armies.
- breed a "perfect heir" through dynasty genetics until your family tree becomes strategically useful and completely tangled.
- revoke an empire's election laws with a single decision, then deal with powerful nobles resisting the change and testing your rule.
5Total War: WARHAMMER II - The forces of Lustria await your command. Choose your Legendary Lord, expand your armies, forge alliances in a strategic turn-based campaign, and unleash the might of your monstrous forces in fast-paced real-time battles.
Sep 28, 2017
In this game, you can…
- get ambushed, eat a tactical nuke minutes into the fight, then rebuild your entire battle line mid-chaos and still win.
- lead an army of thousands of rats with poison bombs, lightning cannons, and rapid-fire guns that can erase units fast.
- play on a stitched-together mega-map where every race from both games is in one campaign with wildly different starting situations.
- race other empires to complete world-shaking rituals, then hold off enemy counterattacks long enough to finish yours.
- set up a chokepoint defense where one perfect position and timed spells lets you beat multiple elite armies at once.
- send a single hero into the front line to fight whole groups alone, then swing the battle with healing or devastating magic.
- slam cavalry into a line hard enough to rip it open, then follow up with hydras, dragons, and phoenixes to finish the collapse.
- pull 10,000 gold from a shipwreck, drop it straight into new buildings, then use the upgrade to launch your next conquest.
6This War of Mine - In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.
Nov 14, 2014
In this game, you can…
- peek through keyholes, steal unseen, and hear the owners realize their medicine or food is missing.
- walk in on a soldier cornering a starving girl, intervene, kill him, take his gun, and limp home badly wounded.
- kill someone in panic, hear nearby civilians scream "You killed him!", and watch your own survivors spiral into depression or leave.
- spend the day patching walls, building beds, cooking, and keeping everyone alive until night lets you risk a supply run.
- choose one survivor to sneak into a random ruined location at night with a strict time limit and barely any bag space.
- have your shelter raided at night, then wake up to missing supplies and wounded survivors if nobody stood guard.
- jump an armed man from the shadows, stab him silently, grab his gear, and then get shot while trying to escape.
- get an endgame epilogue that tells who survived, who deserted, and who broke after you finally make it to the end.
7Mad Max - Play as Mad Max, a reluctant hero and survivor who wants nothing more than to leave the madness behind and find solace.
Sep 1, 2015
In this game, you can…
- eat a corpse for health when you search a body and Max just shoves his hand into the remains.
- race into a massive sandstorm where lightning and debris swallow the wasteland and you have to reach shelter before it overwhelms you.
- slam your car into enemy vehicles at 90 mph, then chain nitro, harpoons, rams, and explosives to peel a convoy apart.
- chase a convoy across half the map, wreck it piece by piece, then spot something new on the horizon and get pulled into another fight.
- use a harpoon to rip apart cars mid-chase by yanking enemies off the road and tearing key parts loose.
- build your car from a rusty wreck into a custom combat machine by swapping engine, armor, spikes, suspension, and body style.
- clear a whole region by destroying camps, scarecrows, snipers, minefields, and patrols until the threat level hits zero and enemies spawn less.
- walk into a roadside standoff, then set a gas can on fire and drop it on the guy who challenged you to a fistfight.
8Ravenfield - Fight upon the Ravenfield together with your Blue allies! Take down those pesky Reds using helicopters, tanks, guns, and active ragdoll physics!
May 18, 2017
In this game, you can…
- turn the battle size up to 1000 bots and fight through a full red-vs-blue front line to capture points and win.
- take off from an aircraft carrier, fly into the battle, jump out, and keep fighting on the ground in the same ongoing match.
- use mods to turn the whole game into completely different wars—Star Wars, Vietnam, medieval battles, Warhammer, or futuristic laser fights.
- toggle slow motion as a plane strafes you, shoot it down with a rocket, and get crushed by the falling wreck anyway.
- watch vehicles get blown apart mid-fight—wheels ripping off, helicopters spiraling in, boats detonating and sinking, and soldiers ragdolling out of the wrecks.
- blast enemies with explosives or high-caliber hits and see them launched 30 feet into the air as limp ragdolls.
- use knockdown ragdolls as a real tactic—splash damage and shotguns topple enemies so you can push, finish, or close distance.
- storm a Normandy-style beach landing with whatever you brought, including something as dumb as a fire extinguisher.
- rewrite the entire match setup—vehicle slots, weapons, teams, map control, time of day, respawns, and AI behavior—until the battle plays exactly how you want.
9Pizza Tower - Pizza Tower is a fast paced 2D platformer, with an emphasis on movement, exploration and score attack. Featuring highly stylized pixel art inspired by the cartoons from the '90s, and a highly energetic soundtrack.
Jan 26, 2023
In this game, you can…
- trigger a timer and race back through the entire level in reverse while a one-hit-kill pursuer closes in if you're too slow.
- become a fire tornado in one level, then get a literal shotgun in another, then play a golf stage where speed is the swing.
- hit Mach 5 and blast through rooms like a ballistic missile once the movement clicks.
- chain runs, slides, dives, wallruns, and grabs into one continuous sprint.
- reach the goal, smash a pillar, and then discover the entrance door is now the exit.
- turn a whole stage into a precision run by collecting every secret, every topping, the special item, and keeping one huge combo.
- hit Lap 2 on the escape and loop the dash again, with the whole vibe flipping into a second, faster victory lap.
- keep momentum through a botched situation by grabbing an enemy near a wall and chaining straight into wall-climbing without stopping.
- perfect boss fights by learning every pattern and winning without taking a single hit.
10Sniper Elite 4 - Discover unrivalled sniping freedom in the largest and most advanced World War 2 shooter ever built. Experience tactical third-person combat, gameplay choice and epic longshots across gigantic levels as you liberate wartime Italy from the grip of Fascism.
Feb 13, 2017
In this game, you can…
- shoot a grenade in someone's hand or on their belt and detonate it midair.
- booby-trap a dead body with a mine, wait for the response squad to investigate, and wipe them out when it blows.
- set up absurdly specific Hitler assassinations, from a clean headshot to a staged "accident" by trapping his escape route.
- stalk a giant Italian map, pick your own route, and hunt officers, side objectives, collectibles, and hidden sniper nests.
- line up shots by accounting for wind, gravity, muzzle speed, scope zoom, and even your character's heart rate.
- time your rifle shots to loud cannons, planes, or generators so nearby enemies never hear you fire.
- climb, hang, shimmy, vault, and drop into new perches, then turn the same rooftops and ledges into close-range takedowns.
- fight through huge levels with around 100 enemies who don't respawn, so you can slowly clear the area at your own pace.
